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Poster for Mondo Schizo: Carl J. Sukenick’s Galaxy of Garbage

Mondo Schizo: Carl J. Sukenick’s Galaxy of Garbage

Director: Carl J. Sukenick Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2015

Starring: Joe Franklin, Debbie Rochon, Abe Sukenick, Carl J. Sukenick

“A public access show made by aliens on bath salts.”

Mondo Schizo is a deranged no-fi horror fantasy clusterfuck trapped inside a negative-budget Oedipal nightmare from real life schizophrenic artist Carl J. Sukenick. Aliens battle terrorists inside a sorority house crawling with mutants, monsters, and secret government agents. Chaotic, unstructured, and stitched together from recycled home movies, static images, perverted camcorder fantasies and conspiratorial ramblings, it unfolds less like a movie and more like a psychotic broadcast from an alternate earth timeline — gloriously equal parts exploitation filth and cursed outsider art.

Described by critics as “a public access show made by aliens on bath salts” and a piece of art that “aggressively rejects all cinematic norms,” the result is an unsettling anti-movie artifact of underground VHS collage dressed up as a sci-fi horror movie — but is actually an interdimensional primal scream from the depths of the unsettled human soul.